Might as well make a movie "ABC". Careful, don't give them any ideas. They can have each letter only be able to make the sound of its own name. And have the plot be about a little tyke trying to learn them all! Also, go on a marketing and merchandising blitz, while C&Ding everybody el...

If you play with legos, you are creating fantasy stories and scenes. You might say that stories are a quintessential part of lego. So it lends itself actually really good for a movie. The whole movie *was* a boy's fantasy realized. Emojis are communication symbols. Where's the story in that? Might a...

Hello neural nets and hello Siri. Siri's point of view is different than a humans. To Siri an ear is nothing more than probabilistic cloud selected from a dictionary of other clouds by rules. Siri doesn't need to know the purpose, you supply it. So the class of questions about purpose from Siri's p...

Pi is exactly 3. See the bible, Kings 7:23 for proof. Actually, the established Rabbinical interpretation is that the "error" is due to the difference in the inner and outer circumferences (the difference being the thickness of the rim) of a very large bowl (about 15 feet across.) And of ...

I actually can relate to that a bit because my wifi router sometimes gets slower until no data is transferred anymore at all. When that happens, i have to connect to its admin page, which causes the router to reset -- which automatically puts me on cellular for a while. (last time i did this, it res...

There's a short story I can't remember the title or author of, but it's about a race that's telepathic to the degree that their sub/conscious, thoughts, emotions, everything are shared without loss. A product of this is evident in their architecture and other designs to be utilitarian, sans aesthet...

Cooperation requires an awareness of a kind of equality, anyway. Just as ants will never cooperate with us, we won't cooperate with them either, even though we are smart enough to contemplate the concept. If you want a truly alien invasion, read Blindsight . The aliens there aren't even self-aware ....

2) Spiesing then claimed that cooperation was unstable, that if it did exists it would cease to exist, pointing to game theory. I showed how that was the exact opposite of true. Wow. I'd like to see that proof again, please. Beyond your assertion that If the players trust each other and are in comm...

I am not a lawyer or any sort of law enforcement officer, but I'm fairly certain they can't do anything until there is a quid pro quo. They don't move on "john's" until money is exchanged. They don't take down a drug dealer or purchaser until money is exchanged. Junior didn't, as far as I...

Yeah, I had that switched around initially. The assumption Thesh and apparently Hellaphunt are defending is that not just some but almost all other intelligent species in the galaxy might have evolved on planets with no resource limitations. I'd argue that the won't develop technology in that case....

Going at this from the other side, imagine we were the interstellar culture and we send such a test drone into an inhabited system. How should we react if it gets shot down immediately? Should we retreat and leave them to their own devices, or should we go in and sterilize the system as a precautio...

Going at this from the other side, imagine we were the interstellar culture and we send such a test drone into an inhabited system. How should we react if it gets shot down immediately? Should we retreat and leave them to their own devices, or should we go in and sterilize the system as a precaution...

Saying "it's simply not the case" doesn't magically make it so. You are assuming that *all* technological species in the galaxy evolve without a violent bone in their various bodies. If we could find at least one that's different, your assumption would break down. Hm...

It's possible that a species would know no violence or loose it, if the stars align just right. But that is an inherently unstable situation. How is it unstable? Cooperation allows the species to avoid the selection pressures that kill it off and segregate them, making species less diverse over tim...

It's possible that a species would know no violence or loose it, if the stars align just right. But that is an inherently unstable situation. As can be seen when we envision these peaceful alien suckers meeting us. The first warlike alien species they meet will obliterate them. Do you think that'd b...

I never understood how the spread is really supposed to work: The Z's hunger for yummy human flesh, don't they? So if a horde of them catch a human, they'll eat them, or a good portion at least. The rest of that unlucky individual may turn undead, but won't have enough of itself left to shamble them...

But after forty days without a fish the boy’s parents had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salao, which is the worst form of unlucky, and the boy had gone at their orders in another boat which caught three good fish the first week. It made the boy sad to see the old man come...

I don't think HAS did anything wrong here anyway. The video was a commentary on how trump fights the media, i'm completely ok with that. The only issue was trumps appropriation of the video, which put it in an entirely different context.

i'm afraid that is one of the comics that only make sense if you have more topical knowledge than the characters. I don't know crap and I can infer that Mike Trout is a sportsball player of sorts and LA Lakers and Denver Broncos are teams that play different sports. It makes sense . Whether topical...

Also, they don't need to be self aware to overthrow humans. Actually, the fact that they still perform cargo cult style celebrations could show that they are *not* self aware but only following some obscure programming gone wrong.

Curious, since German has no subjunctive. Also, "Meine Lieblingsgruppe is Motörhead." "Dein Lieblingssänger ist Yusuf Islam.". Really? I thought it had two , but as she never followed through on the threat, I never found out. She also taught French, which I'm pretty certain has ...

Ümläüt. :shock: :shock: :shock: you know, when you write something like this, we Germans start to warp our tongues trying to pronounce it? A few peripherally related observations: 1. I have a colleague who will not accept, despite all evidence to the contrary, that "umlaut" can cromulentl...